A Crack trotter" between the heats" – Antique Print
![A Crack trotter" between the heats", [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c8/c840bf4da6a0-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A Crack trotter" between the heats" comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A Crack trotter" between the heats"
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Caught in the pause between heats, the trotter in this hand-colored lithograph is a horse between races, when grooms would typically walk and cool it before its next run. Harness racing on oval tracks had become a major pastime across the United States by the 1870s, and the New York firm of Currier & Ives built a large business on sporting scenes like this one for buyers who followed the turf. Its 1875 date places it during the height of the trotting craze, when fans followed individual horses and their records closely.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1875. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1409. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,026 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175326 |
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